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Meanings of prairie fire in English

An uncontrolled fire in a grassy area.

Usage of prairie fire in English
1
Chairman Mao once said a single spark can start a prairie fire.
Radio NZ
2
The blaze was part forest fire, part prairie fire, and all inferno.
Death angel
3
The western fever became an epidemic that spread like a prairie fire.
Land of the Burnt Thigh
4
One of General Sherman's veteran soldiers was once describing a prairie fire.
The Story of Garfield / Farm-boy, Soldier, and President
5
There's nothing grander to look at than a prairie fire at night.
Lonesome Land
6
Like the flame of a prairie fire, it went with a zip!
The War Romance of the Salvation Army
7
In my opinion this war is going to spread like a prairie fire.
The Agony Column
8
The fame of it swept like prairie fire, far and wide.
The Furnace of Gold
9
And it was tinted like a chromo of a prairie fire.
Further Adventures of Lad
10
Your real, devastating row has many points of resemblance with a prairie fire.
Mike
11
Beyond the melee smoke churned over a prairie fire where shapes lay blackened.
Dancer’s Lament
12
Not if we light a prairie fire behind it and set another in front.
The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation's Crisis
13
The prairie fire is terrible while it sweeps along, but it soon burns out.
The Great Conspiracy, Volume 2
14
That was the policy which carried Christianity through the empire like a prairie fire.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
15
The prairie-dwellers have a way of fighting a prairie fire which is very effective.
The Black Creek Stopping-House, and Other Stories
16
That was the spirit that raged like a prairie fire.
The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-War
This collocation consists of:
Prairie fire through the time
Prairie fire across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common